Our study of the regional dimension of China's innovation system has in essence yielded five main findings. Firstly, contrary to what general wisdom may suggest at first sight, the regional concen-tration of R&D activities in China could not be found to be particularly stark. While they are...

Over the course of the last decade, increasing political emphasis has been placed on the 'third role' of universities and universities of applied sciences in German higher education policy, i.e. to these institutions socio-economic contribution their regional environment. Against this background...